The independent filmmaking community is up in arms over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences’ recent decision to gut its archive and library, with some calling the cutbacks “a huge step ...

"We're a different kind of archive," Elizabeth Hansen, the archive's managing director, said. "We are actively out in the community looking for archival materials. We encourage both individuals and ...

Huge questions loom about the status of an archive of thousands of films that dates back to 1927. During the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were shut out of public ...

When Maya Cade founded her meticulously curated database of Black films from 1915 to 1979, she addressed a community need with love. In 2020, shortly after the murder of George Floyd and the wave of ...

Roughly a quarter of the employees of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Science’s Academy Film Archive were laid off this week, according to a report from IndieWire. Employees of the Archive—one ...

Though commonly imagined to be dusty spaces containing rare objects from the distant past, archives are deeply tied to the present and to questions of knowledge, power, and authority. They preserve ...

This post was updated Jan. 28 at 7:25 p.m. May Hong HaDuong is leading the UCLA Film & Television Archive on a new path in 2021, beginning with her notable appointment. HaDuong is the first woman and ...